Every box of Wondermade marshmallows is handcrafted and taste great right out of the box. You can also drop a few in a cup of hot chocolate, melt them on top of baking brownies, or toast them on a skewer or in a s’mores.

These are my last marshmallows from the Wondermade Christmas box. I saved the best for last! These were my favorite marshmallows from this package.

These are extraordinarily minty. I can definitely taste the menthol here! They’re very cool and refreshing and YUMMY! They’re delicious when eaten right out of the box (I love the little boxes in which these little bite sized marshmallows are packaged!) and they add a wonderful minty flavor to a cup of hot chocolate!

My Final Thoughts:

Yum! I love Wondermade. Yeah … I still love that other marshmallow company too. I just have two favorites now.

When they’re not serving as a fluffy, delicious cap to my hot cocoa, I usually prefer to eat marshmallows with a cup of hot tea. However, the heat from the ginger on these gives me cause to want something that is easy to “chug” … lest I need to cool the palate immediately. So I chose a white tea because even when served hot, I prepare it at a cooler temperature than I do other tea types, and white tea tends to offer the body and palate cooling properties. I chose this amazing Organic White Tea from Steenbergs Organics. The sweet, crisp flavor of the tea offered lovely refreshment from these deliciously sweet yet spicy puffs.

What I Think:

I think I may have mentioned before that 240Sweet makes my favorite marshmallows. And it’s not just because the marshmallows are huge and fluffy and perfectly sweet. It’s not just because 240Sweet has managed to create works of art with their marshmallows. Sure, these reasons factor in to why I love these marshmallows so much, but there’s something more to it too.

It’s their gutsy approach to marshmallows. They’re not afraid to get ballsy with their marshmallows and put flavors in them. They’re not content with just letting a marshmallow be a simple little puff of sugary sweet goodness. I mean, seriously, who ELSE would think to put SWEET POTATO flavor in a marshmallow, encrust it with crunchy, candied GINGER and turn those simple little puffs (or in this case … HUGE puffs) into spicy, savory, sweet bits of culinary joy?

Oh. My. Goodness! These are amazing. So yummy!

These puffs evoke thoughts of Thanksgiving dinner when I was a child (which is why I chose to schedule this review for Thanksgiving) … My stepmother would always make sweet potato casserole. And this puff is very much like that sweet potato casserole, only BETTER because first of all, it’s a confection and so it’s OK that this is sweet. (Now that I’m grown I’m a little disappointed that the delicious flavor of the sweet potato was masked by all that sugar and stale, commercially manufactured marshmallow) Second … the ginger on this gives it a fiery heat that my stepmother could never duplicate (she had no clue when it came to spices).

The sweet potato flavor is IN the marshmallow itself. However, if you want to taste the sweet potato flavor, you need to be sure that you bite into a bit of the marshmallow that is not studded with the crystallized ginger. Otherwise, what you’ll taste is mostly spicy-hot ginger. The sweet potato flavor is overwhelmed by the ginger when you bite into the ginger … but when you take a bite into just the marshmallow, you can taste the creamy marshmallow and the sweet, savory taste of the sweet potato. I like to alternate bites, eating some of the puff without the ginger. Its sweet and savory, the sweet potato adds such an interesting flavor to the marshmallow. Then I like taking a bite with the ginger and POW! It’s like a spicy kick in the mouth!

My Final Thoughts:

I wanted to try these because they sounded so unique (come on… sweet potato flavor in a marshmallow? Aren’t you at least a little bit intrigued?) and I’m really glad I did. I love the contrast of flavors and textures that these puffs provide. A lovely autumnal treat!

I love chai … I love 240Sweet’s marshmallows … it’s kind of a no-brainer! I knew I’d love these puffs! They are so fluffy and sweet, but also deliciously spicy. And these aren’t like vanilla marshmallows that have been rolled in finely ground spices and tea, the spiced tea has been infused into the marshmallow, flavoring every inch of these huge marshmallows, making for a very satisfying tea and marshmallow experience … all in one! Of course, a cup of tea along with it doesn’t hurt!

Believe it or not, though, I found these to be better with a cup of hot cocoa. I put one in the cocoa to melt while I munched happily away on another (for review purposes only, of course, I needed to see what it tasted like without the cocoa’s influence). Because of the spices and the hint of tea in the marshmallows, they offered a lovely layer of flavor to the cocoa that I really enjoyed.

I can taste the cinnamon and the peppery kick of the ginger in this. I also taste hints of clove and I can even taste the subtle note of tea in there. The aftertaste is a little bit like cardamom. The spices are very warm and delicious, and offer a pleasing contrast to the sweet flavor of the marshmallow base.

My Final Thoughts:

240Sweet’s marshmallows are my favorite and there’s a reason for that. They’re superb! Have you ever tried a homemade marshmallow? They are so much better than anything store-bought. You really MUST get to 240Sweet and order some Marshmallows. They have so many tempting flavors from which to choose … and this one may be my favorite one yet. I love the spices here – they’re spicy without being out-of-control hot … tempered by the sweet, luscious, puffy marshmallow. So good.